Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Wales is the co-founder of Wikipedia, and he is founder and Trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit corporation which operates Wikipedia and several other wiki projects. Wales is also co-founder of the for-profit company Wikia, Inc., which is legally separate from the Wikimedia Foundation, but closely tied through past governance (for years, three out of five Wikimedia Foundation board members were key employees of Wikia), as well as thousands of outbound links from Wikipedia to Wikia.com that generate traffic and revenues for Wikia. 

Wales also appointed a Wikia employee to the Wikipedia "Arbitration Committee", which is the highest body of policy control on Wikipedia, short of the Wikimedia Foundation board and staff. This Wikia employee was soon discovered to have falsified his credentials to the Wikipedia community, and he was driven off the Arbitration Committee, and he elected to retire his Wikipedia account. Wales also terminated his employ with Wikia. 


 * Director, Creative Commons
 * Advisory Board, Sunlight Foundation